Formation of loops in DNA under tension

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Sankararaman, Sumithra ^a   Marko, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIRAL; DEFECT STRUCTURES; SPLAY; SUSPENDED FILMS;

CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELASTICITY; IONS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); THIN FILMS; VISCOSITY OF LIQUIDS;

SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

DNA;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROMANIPULATION; PROCEDURES; STIMULATION; TENSILE STRENGTH;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ELASTICITY; MICROMANIPULATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 37649031368     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.021911     Document Type: Article

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